I was wondering what the preferred way of building software in the BSDs is and if they are actively using and encouraging the use of GNU autotools.
I found the following section about GNU autoconf in ...

I tried to get remove Perl from my Ubuntu machine, but found that automake not only depends on Perl but itself is a Perl program. I read somewhere this was not always the case.
Today I looked in the ...

I have different subdirectories that need to be compiled in different ways. For example, some files needs to include some others using CFLAGS. However, CFLAGS can only be set in configuration files, ...

If I am using automake to build a library if there are no specific flags specifying target system will the result be according to the system that the build is happening on? Meaning compiler on 64bit ...

I am trying to build the latest ffmpeg from the git repo. However, as you can see below, autotools does not detect correctly that my box has 64-bit architecture (Ubuntu 12.04). Consequently, during ...

I am trying to compile a gnome application and I am curious what the output means when I run the autogen.sh script:
~/Documents/Code/window-picker-applet $./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory ...

I was using automake 1.11 without trouble, until some package required automake 1.10. When installing it, I found that it actually wants to overwrite /usr/bin/{aclocal,automake} (which were installed ...